My Emacs Configuration

Screenshot of my Emacs. Some notable packages in screenshot include doom-modeline, Catppuccin Latte color theme, and JetBrains Mono font.

Introduction

This is my Emacs configuration, a somewhat simple config compared to most. The setup and installation is geared towards OS X, although it should work on most *nix configs. I also run this same config on Fedora with no issues. I’ve never tried this on Windows, so YMMV.

This configuration aims to provide you with a bare-bones configuration with sane defaults, built upon package.el.

Although Emacs has support for many programming languages, this config is geared towards the following languages and workflows:

• Emacs Lisp
• Python
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• Clojure

  As part of my constant tweaking and rewrites, I created a dedicated terminal-only `init.el` found in `./terminal/init.el` that is meant to be the absolute minimum carried over from my main config.

Installation

To install, it’s recommended to clone this repo wherever you prefer and symlink the directory to ~/.emacs.d.

$ git clone https://github.com/jonathanchu/dotemacs.git

There is a Makefile provided that will create the symlink for you at ~/.emacs.d:

$ make setup

My current Emacs distro of choice is:

$ brew tap daviderestivo/emacs-head
$ brew install emacs-head@30 --with-cocoa --with-imagemagick --with-retro-icon-gnu-head

Please note, this requires Homebrew to be installed.

Requirements

There are a few requirements needed for this config to properly run. All of these pre-requisites can be installed via homebrew and npm.

$ brew install gpg
$ brew install ag
$ brew install node
$ npm install -g eslint

Package Updates

To update the third-party packages, type M-x list-packages, then U followed by x.